Allie Ward

What do you eat now?

Like something goopier?

Like something wetter?

And if those last details made you feel some kind of way, we have an excellent episode on environmental toxicology.

We also have a bleach episode called disinfectiology with a chemist and an OCD episode, which also talks about moral scrupulosity obsessions.

Also, we got a disgustology episode with a psychologist who has devoted his career to it.

We'll link him in the show notes.

So the American Psychological Association published this interview with Professor Dr. June Tangney, who explained that, quote, in a nutshell, when we feel shame, we feel bad about ourselves.

We are fundamentally flawed because we did something.

It reflects who we are as a person.

I'm a bad person for having done that.

guilt in contrast she says focuses on a behavior somewhat separate from the self you can be a good person but do a bad thing and so when people feel guilt they feel typically bad about something that they've done something specific or not done that they should have done so essentially guilt is like oh shit i'm sorry and then you move on and shame is like fuck i'm

fucked up because I'm the fucking worst.

I hate myself.

So fun game.

Which one are you?

It can determine the course of your life and mental wellness and the fate of everyone on the planet.

Well, yeah, I think that's one thing that really surprised me because, you know, as a religious scholar with someone who has kind of a background socially around really hyper-religious things and yet also comes from an academic family,

When I think of the word evil, I think abuse of power to oppress people.

And then when you're looking at it in a religious context, maybe evil could mean someone who's trying to undermine the will of God or someone who's going against something divine, some kind of indoctrination.